One of the mysteries of the prophetic book of Daniel is
the enigma of the “Ram” of Daniel Eight. While the scholars,
Jewish and Christian alike, proclaim that the Ram was Cyrus’
First Persian Empire in an epic war with Alexander the Great’sdemocratic
and Hellenistic Grecian Empire, the archangel Gabriel proclaimed
to Daniel, “Son of man, this vision refers to the time
of the end.”(Daniel
8:17). According
to Gabriel, this epic battle between the global forces of
the Oriental East and the Occidental West was to be a “War of
Civilizations” that “shall happen in the latter times of indignation (holocaust)”(Daniel 8:18)….in the latter time
of their kingdoms when the transgressionshave reached their fullness…” (Daniel 8:23) “for at the appointed times the end shall be…”(Daniel 8:18)

Gabriel assured the Babylonian and Persian statesman, now
the Jewish prophet, that the vision of the “evenings and
mornings which was told was true…”(Daniel 8:26) because “it refers to many days in the future….”(Daniel 8:26) when after “two
thousand and three hundred days…then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.”(Daniel 8:14) Is it not amazing
that two thousand and three hundred years (prophetic days) later into
the future from the days of Daniel the prophet that the United
Nations affirmatively voted for the Nation of Israel the only
time in its history? In the fall 1947, a resolution for the
homeland of the Jewish people was unanimously voted? This
did not only occur in the exact year but the exact part of the
year according to the calendar of the Jews that has been calculated
by the Jewish sages since the creation of Adam. So begins
our quest to discover the ancestral roots of the social and
political roots of Ahmadinejad’s and the Ayatollah’smodern
day Shi’ite Iran’s (Persia)quest for a global Islamic Caliphate.

As
we watch the parleying in the United Nations with the defense
of Russia and China to permit Iran to become a nuclear power
in the Middle East, let us fully understand that President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad of Iran’s vision of a global Shi’ite Islamic Caliphate is
the same global imperial vision of President Vladimir Putin (1999-present) in Russiaand President Hu Jintao
(2003-present) in China. Iran, Russian and China all three seek world domination as
imperial oriental powers.

Let
us carefully weave that tortuous path of unraveling the
tapestry of the epic conquest from that globalist power in
the ancient lands of Central Asia; the Greater Mongolian Empire of
Genghis Khan in Persia (Il-Khanate of Persia),Russia (Kipchak Khanate of Russia) and China (Yuan Dynasty of the Kublai Khanate
of China).

As
Daniel was standing by the river of U’lai, he was looking towards the
north and to the east and there he saw a magnificent beast, a ram
with two mighty horns. He was boldly covering the expanse
of land to the north and east of the ancient province of Elam in Babylon. Whereas in the scroll of Daniel (Daniel 7:5) the Persian Empire
was identified as a “Bear raised up on one side”, here in chapter eight of Daniel,
the apocalyptic image of this great Persian Empire was
depicted as aMighty “Ram” with “two Horns.”

Daniel 7:5 –“And suddenly another beast, a
second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and had three
ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And they said thus to it: ‘Arise,
devour much flesh!’”

Daniel 8:20 – “The ram which you saw,
having the two horns – they are the kings of Media and Persia.”

Yet
this same apocalyptic image would morph into a prophetic image
as the image of the ram would change back into the image of a
bear at the time of the end.Five hundred years there would
be another apocalyptic book that would be written. At that time
it gave an image of a great beast with “feet like a bear.”

Revelation 13:2 – “Then I stood on
the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea,
having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns,
and on his heads a blasphemous name. Now the beast which I saw was
like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like a mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power,
his throne, and great authority.”

Ask any young bright student of history what nation on
this planet is symbolized by the “bear” and they would answer, Russia
the Bear, known as the former Soviet Union. Here the clues begin to
take a modern shape. As Daniel’s imagery of the bear and the ram were one
in the same so also the ancient land of Persia, now transforming into
the modern nation of Iran is depicting its symbiotic relationship with
the Red Communist giant of Russia and the modern Islamic nation Iran (ancient
Persia).

In the ancient
days, the world was dividing up between the two Oriental
powers of Babylon and Medo-Persia and the two Occidental powers of Greece and Rome.Each one of these powers
exerted great influence on the history of the Jewish people. To
the ancient oriental people, the soul of the national identity was held
in the identity of the influence of their national state. The state
was supreme just as the law of the Medes and the Persians that “could
not be altered” was supreme. The people in the oriental world
were subservient to the power of the state as is now reflected in the national identities of the communist countries from the former USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republic) and the People’s Republic of China.

The
roots of
the modern nation of Russia lay in the toppling of the imperial Tsarist
government of Tsar Nicholas II in the February Revolution of 1917. This was followed by
the October
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 led by the Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.

Vladimir Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov) was of Jewish ancestry
by his maternal grandfather. Leon Trotsky(Lev Davidovich Bronstein)was of Jewish descent by an illiterate
Ukrainian Jewish farmer. Historians claim that these facts are not
unusual for Russian Jews composed of about 95% of the Communists
in the Bolshevik and the Menshevik Parties in Russia. The February
and the Bolshevik October Revolution marked the first official
Communist revolution based on the writings of the Jewish author Karl
Marx in the twentieth century. Since its ten year anniversary in
1927, this epic and global event in that “Red October” has
been called the Great October Socialist Revolution.

Here
was the foundation of the future Cold War that gripped the world
during the following four decades since the rise of the National State of Israel in 1947-1948.

The Republics of the Soviet Union were founded on the constitutional
confederation that allowed in article 72, of the Russian
constitution of 1977, that each republic had the right to secede from
the USSR. Each one of the 15 Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR or Soviet Republics) with the exception of Russia had their own
Communist Party.

From
the day of its creation in 1922, the USSR created a
highly centralized state where the foundation of the communist
state by the Soviets (Councils) of the People’s Deputies was placed in all levelsof the governments of
each republic. Overall the highest level of control was at the
Supreme Soviet of the USSR in the capital city of Moscow.

Along
with the political administrative control of each republic stood a parallel
structure of communist party organizations under the control of
the Politburo. The communist party infiltrated all levels of each
government, appointing the party and state leadership only by the approval
of the central Communist Party. Here again we see, with the adoption of
a form of democracy, the persistent form of the oriental form of
governance where the state is supreme and the people are the
servants of the state.

The
second great power of the Red Communist Leninist Communist bloc was
the People’s Republic of China with its population of 1.3
billion people. It was founded on October 1, 1949 by the Communist
Party of China (CPC),one year after the founding of the State of
Israel. China became a constitutional socialist state noted with
its great innovation in the privatization of its economy. At
the same time, it was exerting powerful control over its
banking and state-owned enterprises.

As
with Russia, the foundation of Red Communist China began with the China Civil War between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Kuomintang (KMT) or the old Chinese National Party. This
civil war ended with Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China in firm control of mainland China. The Kuomintang (KMT) Party under the
leadership of Chiang Kai-shekfled to the island of Taiwan and established the Republic of China popularly called “Taiwan.” This nation has been a powder keg between Chinaand the western global powers to this day.

Yet it all began in China with the Xinhai Revolution
(Hsinhai Revolution) in 1912. At this time the last imperial Chinese
dynasty called the Qing (Pure) Dynasty (1616-1911) or the Manchu
Dynasty was toppled. This Manchurian dynastyruled the entire
country of China for 267 years between the years of 1644 to 1911.

When
it was overthrown in 1912, it not only ended its dynastic hegemony
over China but it also ended 4000 years of dynastic rule in China. On this day of February 12, 1912, the Republic of China was born.

The
founders of the Qing Dynasty were outsiders. They were not from
the ruling Chinese majority called the Han Chinese but lived
north of the Great Wall of China in what was called the Manchu state or Manchuria. Nestled
between the eastern edge of the Gobi desert and the future
lands of the Koreas and Japan, the peoples of this land would render
useless one of the great landmarks in Chinese history, the Great Wall of China.

Here
also were the primal lands of the Mongolian hordes that dwelt
in the tribal lands given by Noah to his son Japheth. For centuries,
they swept across the upper plains of the Siberian meadows
and wilderness into northern China, the Chinese Province of Manchuria.

BibleSearchers Reflection’s research documented in November,
2005, “The
Mystery of Magog” that according to ancient anthropologists, these Mongols
were the ancestral Indians that moved across the Aleutian
Straits of Alaska and peopled the land of the Americas from
the Great Indian Empires in the northeastern sector of the United
States, the Navaho and Hopi Nations to the west and down
into the lands of the Aztecs and Mayans in Mexico, Central
and South Americas.

Today
the various different Indian tribes have been genetically identified by
their molar teeth and discovered that of nine different mtDNA sequencing groups, the Mongolians share all four
different haplo-group types.

BibleSearchers Reflections – “It is documented that the Na-dene Indian nations spoke the
same root word pairs as Athabascan families of languages. When linguistic studies of a list
of 36 word-pairs between the Apache American Indians and the Ket tribes who
live along the Yenisey River in Central-Eastern Siberia were compared, it
was discovered that they shared common roots to each of these word-pairs.
In other words, “the Ket and the Apache and the Navajo are speaking the same
Mongol/ Central Siberian dialect.”

The
dynasty of the Manchu’s was formed in the 17th
century by a prince called Nurhaci. He was a Manchurian vassal
of the Ming Dynasty who later declared himself the first
Emperor (Khan) of the Later Jin in 1609. He began a military revolt
against the Ming general Yuán Chonghuan. Right in the midst of the
revolt, he unexpectantly died. His son, Huang
Taiji,picked up the banner
of his father’s political revolt and soon toppled the Ming Dynasty.

The
Ming dynasty came to its end when the Chongzhen Emperor of
China, the 16th and last of the Ming dynasty hung
himself on a tree on Coal Hill that was overlooking the Forbidden City.

The
Manchurian general, Li Zicheng with 60,000 seasoned soldiersimmediately
headed to Shanhaiguan, the strategic pass fifty miles northeast of Beijing along
the Great Wall of China where he returned to confront 100,000 troop
garrison commanded by Wu Sangui, the commanding general for
Emperor Chongzhen. As the Manchu rebels moved towards the royal “Forbidden City” the Ming general
Wu Sangui was persuaded to open the gates at the Shanghai Pass. Here the Ming general formally gave control of the Great Wall
that kept the Manchurian and
Mongolian hordes out of China proper for almost 1400 years.

According
to Chinese legend, it took three days for the entire army of
the Manchu to pass into China. The days of the military
defense of the Great Wall of China were now over. The Manchurians, with the Imperial Nephrite Jade Seal
of the Mongolian Empire in their possession reigned over the land of China for the half a century until the rise of the Republic of China on February 12, 1912, when the Manchurian Qing Dynasty (1616-1911) was overthrown.

The
dynasty of the Manchu’s was formed in the 17th
century by a prince called Nurhaci. He was a Manchurian
vassal of the Ming Dynasty who later declared himself the first
Emperor (Khan) of the Later Jin in 1609. He began a military revolt
against the Ming general Yuán Chonghuan. Right in the midst of the
revolt, he unexpectantly died. His son, Huang
Taiji,picked up the banner of his father’s military
revolt.

The eastern
branch of the dynasty founded by Kublai Khan came to its
final end.With the Great Nephrite Jade Seal,
the mantle of the power of the Mongolians was transferred
to the first Manchurian Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Emperor Huang Taijirenamed the Manchurian state
the State ofQingand carried on with the revolt. Yet
he died just before his troopsenteredand took possession
of the Ming dynastic capital city in Beijing, China. The Ming capital city of Beijing was sacked and conquered by
the Manchu rebels led by Li Zicheng under the banner of
Prince Drogon, the regent to the six year old heir, Emperor Shunzhi, the son of Emperor
Huang Taiji.

This dynastic overthrow opens up a new spectrum in Biblical
prophecy. According to historians, the Great Wall of China
was originally built as a defensive wall during the Qin
Dynasty by the First Emperor Qin Shi Huang (221 to 210 BCE) around 200
BCE.

It
was later expanded, fortified and rebuilt by the Han
Dynasty (1st c. BCE), the Sui Dynasty (7th c. CE),
the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms between 1138-1198 CE and rebuilt
in its present form by the emperors between Hongwu and
Wanli of the Ming Dynasty between the years of 1368-1640.

In
the 1st century BCE when the Qin Shi Huang of the
Qin Dynastyordered the construction of theGreat Wall of China in
214 BCE,
the first two Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome were being
fought. This great series of wars was when the Romans
defeated the
Greek Empire and absorbed the Grecian Hellenistic culture into
the rising Imperial culture of Rome.

Antiochus I Soter, the son ofthe Greek general Seleucus
became emperor and heir of the Seleucid Empire (281 BCE).
He became the great-grandfather of Antiochus Epiphanies IV, who desecrated
the Temple of God in Jerusalem with the Abomination of
Desolation and spawned the Maccabean revolt in 165 CE. This
was the era of Ashoka the Great who ruled the Mauryan
Empire in India (273-252 BCE) and two of the Seven
Wonders of the World, the Colossus of Rhodes (282-226 BCE)
and the Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria (290-1480 BCE) that were built
as beacons of their cultures.

Teotihuacán the largest pre-Columbian city in Americaswas built in Mexico; Indian traders were plying merchandise
from China to Arabia along the Silk Road; the Scythians were
living in Sogdiana where modern-day Uzbekistan is today. The Han
dynasty was founded (202 BCE to 8 CE) all while the Hopewell
Culture began to flourish in the state of Ohio in ancient America.

The
purpose of the Great Wall of China was to keep the northern
semi-nomadic people of the Tribes of Magog from raiding and
taking away stolen property from China. These Magog tribes
included: the CentralMongolians under Altan Khan, the Western
Mongols such as the Qirats under Esen Taiji and the Turkic
Altays tribes and the Eastern Mongols such as the Manchus.

We
now have the last link in the Mongolian succession from Genghis Khan to the Communist Republic of China. It was
the Eastern
Mongols,
known as the Manchurians who became the Qing Dynasty that were actually Mongolian
cousins when Elijei Hongor, the son of the last MongolianEmperor, Lingdan Khan, gave them the Green Nephrite Jade Dynastic
Sealof
Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan in 1634.

Spanning nine provinces and 100 counties for a formidable
3,948 miles (6,352 km), this great wall stretched from the Shanghai Pass in the eastnear Beijing below Manchuria to Lop Nur in the Turin Basin. The Great Wall began at the Jiavuguan Pass that
was the most intact and preserved pass on the extreme western
end of China. It was located near an oasis called “The First and Greatest Pass Under Heaven.”

This
Great Wall of China formed a barrier shield to protect the
Chinese against a people that would later, at the time of
the end, make their mark in Biblical prophecy as the military
coalition leader, Gog from the Land of Magog. It was in January 2006, BibleSearchers Reflections
posted the article titled, “The Rabbinic
Interpretation on Gog of the Land of Mogog.” This article
stated a central thesis that according to ancient Arab
chroniclers, the Great Wall of China was called the “Wall
of al-Mogog.”

Along
the Great Wall of China, going from Central Siberia to the eastern coast
of Asia and across the Aleutian Straits into Alaska, the Mongolians streamed into
the New World.Lost for thousands of years, the
American Indianshighlighted by the Hopewell Culture with the
Indian Mounds across Northeast and Midwestern United States remembered
little of their ancestral roots in Central Mongolia. The prophetic Land of Mogog in Ezekiel 38 may today be found in the land of America. From
the land of Manchuria on the border of the Gobi Desert to the plains of mid-America, the children of the Mogogsinhabited
the ancestral lands of their migrations.

Someday
in the future according to the prophets of Israel, a war called
theGog-Mogog War would sweep over
the Middle East. The leading rabbis of Israel consider that “Gog
of the Land of Mogog” is none other than the president
of the Land of Mogog in America. Is it possible that at that moment
in time, in the near future, the leaders of the Nations of
Iran, Russian and the United States will form a coalition
of allies for an invasion into the land of Israel?

Ezekiel 38:1-5 (parts) – “Now the word of the Lord
came to me saying, ‘Son of man, set your face against Gog of the land of
Magog (Leader of America), the prince of Rosh (Russia?), Meshech
(Moshkhi or Moscow?) and Tubal
(Siberian or Anatolian local)…I will turn you around and put
hooks into your jaws…Persia
(Iran), Ethiopia (Egypt) and Libya (in Northern Africa) are with them…”

The
real power of the Qing Dynasty began with the death in 1634 of Lingdan Khan, the last Great-Khan of Mongoliathat began 430
years earlier with Genghis
(Chinggus) Khan (1162-1227). It was in 1206 CE, Genghis
molded the Turkik and Mongolianpeoples into the largest
contiguous empire in the world that stretched from Vienna,
Austria throughout Persia, Middle Eastern Russia eastward to Korea and China. As such, Genghis Khan became the first Great
Khan (Emperor) of the Mongol Empire that the Jews called Mogog.

Born with the name Temüjin, he was renamed Genghis Khan or “Universal Ruler” as he expanded his
empire to the east towards the empire of the Western Xia
in northern China and to the south into the Muslim Khwarezmid Empire in Persia and towards Europe
in the west encapsulating Russia proper, Poland and Hungary.

The
warriors under Genghis Khan first headed towards China and were continuously frustrated in their ability to take over
the fortifications of the major cities even though their battle
prowess on the field was supreme.

With
Chinese engineers, they continued to improve their siege
military tactics until they were recognized to be “the most
successful besiegers in the history of warfare.” As reported in Wikipedia:

Wikipedia, “Siege” – “By concentrating on the
field armies, the strongholds had to wait. Of course, smaller fortresses,
or ones easily surprised, were taken as they came along.

This had two effects. First, it cut off the
principal city from communicating with other cities where
they might expect aid. Secondly, refugees from these smaller
cities would flee to the last stronghold. The reports from
these cities and the streaming hordes of refugees not only reduced
the morale of the inhabitants and garrison of the principle city, it
also strained their resources.

Food and water reserves were taxed by the sudden influx of
refugees. Soon, what was once a formidable undertaking became easy.
The Mongols were then free to lay siege without interference
of the field army as it had been destroyed…

At the siege of Aleppo, Hulegu
used twenty catapults against the Bab al-Iraq (Gate of Iraq) alone.In Jûzjânî, there are several episodes in which the Mongols
constructed hundreds of siege machines in order to surpass the number
which the defending city possessed. While Jûzjânî surely
exaggerated, the improbably high numbers which he used for both the Mongols
and the defenders do give one a sense of the large numbers
of machines used at a single siege.”

If
the catapults were not devastating enough as siege machines,
they were also used in biological warfare. The catapults would
send airborne dead victims of the plague infested with fleas,cast
them into the city and the plague would quickly spread and
destroy the citizens within the impregnable walls.

Psychological warfare was used effectively. For example,
the color of the tent of the Mongol commander sitting outside the
city walls told the citizens within what their fate would be.

The first night, the “commander’s tent” would be white. If the city
surrendered the city would be spared.

The
second
night
the “tent” would be red.
If the citysurrendered, all the men would be killed and
the women and children spared.

On
the third
day,
the tent
was black.
No one would live to the tell the story to the next generation.
This imagery stands in stark contrast toRevelations Seals that also progress
from White
to Red to Black with about the same devastating results.

By
1213, the Great Wall of China that had hindered the northern
Mongol hordes for almost a thousand years was breached. Three
armies entered into the heart of Jin territory between the Great
Wall and the Huang He (Yellow River) to the south. By 1215
the Jin capital of Yanjing (Beijing) was sacked by the Jin
emperor, Xuan Zong. He removed his capital to the southern banks
of the Yellow River at Kaifeng. It would take another 19 years before
the emperor would be conquered.

By
1234, all of Chinawould come under Mongolianrule
as the Jin Empire and the Western Xia provinces went down.
It would then take another forty five years of continuous warfare
before the Southern Song Empire finally crumbled in the first
war where firearms were used. During this time, Koreabecame a vassal to the Mongols and two invasion attempts were
even made towards Japan.

When
Genghis Khan died, he was survived by his four surviving sons;
Jochi, Chagatai, Ögedei, and Tolui. The
descendants of Jochithe eldest were given the western parts
of the empire towards Europe between the Ural and the
Irtish Rivers; “as far as the hooves of the Mongol horses
had trodden.”Jochi though had a family secret that was a taboo in the
House of Khan.

His
mother, Börte Ujin, was the first
wife and Grand Empress of the Great Genghis Khan and the head of
the first Court of the House of Khan. She was described in history
as a beautiful woman dressed in flowing white silken gowns, golden
coins in her hair, carrying a white lamb and riding a white steed. Börte
was the mother of Genghis four sons, Jochi, Chagatai, Ögedei,
and Tolui plus five daughters.

At
the age of 14, Börtewas given in marriage to Temüjin’s
(Genghis Khan). One night when Temüjin’s father was
returning home after leaving Temüjin in the home of Börte and her
family, he was murdered by the his enemiesthe Tartars, a Mongolian
Turkic tribe in central Asia and eastern Europe who are
mostly Sunni Islamic believers today.

Börte was abducted by the Merkits, an Asian tribe of unknown identity
and kept hostage for nine months until Temüjin,
Wang Khan and Jamuga, the childhood friend and blood-brother of
the later Genghis Khanlaunched a lightning raid and rescued Börte from her captors.

Soon after her rescue, she delivered a child, named Jochi. Since she was raped
during her captivity, Jochi’s parentage would
always remain in suspect. As the love of Genghis’ life, when Genghis
became the Great Khan, Börte was crowned
the grand empress and remained with Genghis’ brother, Temuge,
to rule the Mongolian homeland while the Great Khan was on the military
battlefront. With Jochi’s parentage in doubt, it caused a strain
between their relationships and eventually almost led to civil
war between son and father as Jochi’s defiant refusal to participate
in military campaigns.

Somewhat
like the descendants of Alexander the Great, the rule of these
four Mogog families branched across the entire then-known world from
the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Over the centuries the Greater Mongolian Empire was
buttressed by four kingdoms or Khanates.

The
second son of Genghis was Chagatai Khan
who’s Khanate in Central Asia extended
from the Ili River in eastern Kazakhstan near the Chinese
border and Kashgaria in the western Tarim Basin all the way to
Transoxiana in the modern states of Uzbekistan and southwest Kazakhstan. All together Chagatai’s realm centered on the five former
Republics of Central Asia in the former Soviet Socialist Republics. They are now members of the Commonwealth of the
Independent Soviet States: Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Known as the Chagatai Khanate, it remained the central part of
the Mongolian Empire.

To
the western regionsinto the land of
the ancient Roman Empire, the descendants of
Genghis eldest son, Jochi, made
their imperial dreams centered in the present states of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan in the Kipchak Khanate of the
Golden Horde.

Using
the Turkic Islamic tribes of central Asia as their main
mercenary forces, the invasion of the Mongol forces into Europe appeared to be an Islamic invasion but which in fact had its central
forces from theancient tribe of Magog of the House of Japheth.Some historians
claim that the cause of the Crusaders in the 11th century
came in revenge for the earlier Islamic jihad in central Europe. We now know that the Islamic jihad did reach to the northern
borders of Spain during the era of Moorish Spain but there were no
invasions from the eastern borders of Europe. Rather it was the Mongolians of
the Golden Horde that were hiring mercenaries of the Turkic
Islamic tribes of Central Asia that made the invasion of the Golden
Horde of the Kipchak Khanateappear to be an Islamic invasion.

To the east,Yuán Dynasty of China fulfilled its imperial ambitions that peaked under the Mongol
emperor Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis
Khan. He
began the first foreign rule of China in 1271. As the Grand Khan, he moved the Central
Mongolian capital to Beijing as the Great
Khanate.
During his rule, the mainland of China retained its Confucian religious identity.

It
was the youngest son of Genghis Khan, Tolui, who was given the greatest number of warriors.
Rejecting the Grand Khan title, Toluigave the title of the second Grand Khan to his father’s
choice, his brother Ögedei. Ögedei’snoted and amazing
military skills took him to China in the campaigns against the
Jin Dynasty and to Persia in the campaigns against the Persian
Khwarezmid Empire.

Even
so though Tolui never established his
own imperial state, his sons by his wife Sorghaghtani Beki; Möngke Khan became
the third Grand Khan; Kublai Khan became the fourth Grand Khan; Ariq Boke who challenged
Kublai as the Khan of China and finally Hülegü Khan, the younger brotherwhomolded his imperial
designs in conquering the Persian Islamic Caliphate in Iran
of the Khwarezmid Empire and establishing the dynasty of the
Mongolian Il-Khanate.

HülegüKhan who was given
the most ambitious military task by his brother MöngkeKhan to:

destroy
the
mystical Islamic Ismaeli Muslims called the Assassins;

To
subdue the ancient warrior state of Lurestan in Iran west of the Zagros Mountains;

To
submit or destroy the Caliphate of Abbasid in Baghdad,

The
Ayyubid Dynasty in Syria and

The
Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt.

In
the zeal to carry out his brothers orders, Hülegü forgot
to “treat kindly those who submit” and only fulfilled with great
passion the command to “utterly destroy those who did not.”

During
the campaign to subdue all the Islamic dynasties in the
Middle East, the powerful Hashshashin (Assassins) of the Ismaili Cult,
that produced terror throughout the Islamic Abbasid Empire, offered
a truce by their ruler, Ruknuddin Khor-shah.
With Hülegü’s refusal, the Assassinssurrendered, without even
a battle, their impregnable fortress called Alamut.

Sitting
south of the Caspian Sea, Alamut was built with only one
possible entrance. Islamic traditions speak of its famed gardens
and library. This fortress and the Ismailite Assassins were destroyed
on December 15, 1256 by the ruthless campaign of Hülegü Khan.

Towards
the south and to the Promised Land the Mongolian imperial dreams
of the Mongolian PersianIl-khanate set their eyes to conquer
and dominate the entire Middle East. Their kingdomcentered in
the former lands of the ancient Persian and Babylonian
empires.

The
effect upon Europe and the Middle East was profoundly affected
by the descendants of both Jochi and Hülegü. This camebecause
of the family dissatisfaction by the descendants of Jochi with
Hülegü Khan. The Jochi clan had to extend their empire
with the auxiliary troops they had subjugated which were predominately
Turkish in descent but believers of the Muslim faith. This Turkish
and Islamic element would carry its effects clear to the
time of the end.

While the central leadership of the Golden Horde left their animist religious
beliefs and became Nestorian Christians, it was Berke Khanwho was
converted toIslam that effectively halted the
Mongolian advance into the Middle East.

Ögedei Khan, the third son of Genghis Khan, was
nominated in 1229 to be the Great Khan, by the kuriltai, the
Mongolian military council to succeed his father. Always a favorite
of his father, Ögedei Khan was a personable, charismatic man with the ability
in a debate to sway his detractors just by the dynamic force
of his personality. As a grown man, he was known to be physically
large, jovial with the interest and intent of having a good time.
Though intelligent, the genius of Genghis Khan was not a
mark of his character. Yet his reign was steady and thoughtful
as he learned to keep good advisors. By keeping his father’s
good military generals, he knew his limitations and followed
their sage advice. As the history of the Mongolians attest,
the brilliant strategy and organizational ability of Genghis Khan plus
the personal charisma ofÖgedei Khan is what kept the momentum of the Mongol Empire as it
expanded to the east, the west and to the south.

As
all his brothers, he came from a warrior family. From his youth,
he was part of his father’s imperial dream. He soon became noted
for his pragmatic vision but with an eye for the end results.
Even though he was a Great Khan, he was a humble man. Part of this may
have been his insecurities of following in his father’s giant
footsteps which opened to him his most fatal flaw. He was an
alcoholic born to a father who was larger to life that forbad
the use of alcohol.

During the reign ofÖgedei, the Chinese Jurchin
Jin Empire (1234) collapsed and the conflicts with the Southern
Song dynasty began which lasted until it collapsed in 1271.
The Koreasbecame a vassal state, Persiacame under the Mongolianpermanent control with Ögedei’s general, Chormagan, and the Russian
steppes plus Hungary and Poland were subdued and ruled by the
heirs of Batu Khan for over one hundred fifty years.

The central ties of the Greater Mongolian Empire between
China, Persia and Russia is a factor that appears to be played
out in biblical prophecy; in the prophesy of Daniel
eight of the Ram and the he-Goat, the Ezekiel
prophesies of the King of the North and the King of the South and the currently
fulfilling prophesies of Gog from
the Land of Mogog.

Jochi Khan had two sons; Orda and Batu.One of the Mongol leaders in
the invasion of Russia in 1237-1242, Orda was the eldest
grandson of Genghis and received the eastern part of Jochi’s inheritance
as their father, Jochi, died before his father Genghis
Khan. Commanding what was called the “White Horde,” Orda’s inheritance lay between the
Ural and the Volga Rivers.

Batu’s
inheritance on
the other hand became the “Blue Horde”
or the lands west of the Volga River. Orda’s early demise saw
the White Horde swallowed up by the Blue Horde. When combined,
it became known as the Russian Kipchak Khanate or the “Golden Horde.”

To the west under the command of Batu Khan
the Russian steppes including all of Russia except Novgorod were
taken control by the Golden Horde. On April 5, 1241 the feudal Polish
nobility and the Knights Templars were defeated by
the Mongolian general Subutai in the Battle of Liegnitz. On April
27, Bela IV of Hungary was defeated by Batu Khan in the Battle of Muhion the Sajo River. Vienna, Austriawas next on
the path of destruction.

Suddenly the news arrived by courier that Ögedei Khan, the third son of Genghis Khan and
the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire had died. Family intrigue
plus the “spirits” of the “fruit of the vine” and possibly poison swept
away the life of this mighty Khan of the Mogogs. According to the directives
for succession left by the great Genghis Khan, all the generals
and rulers of the Mongol Empire had to return to the capital
to select a new imperial ruler in the kuriltai, the Mongolian
military council. This new ruler would come from the family of
Genghis Khan.

Ögedei Khan had already given themilitary
directive to conquer all of Europe all the way to the
“Great Sea” or the Atlantic Ocean. Except for
the unexpectant death of the Great Khan, the entire continent
of Europe would have been swept under the devastating hordes of
the Mongols.

In the fall of 1241, Batu and his able general
Subutai made plans to invade Austria, destroy Vienna and then
move in to conquer the German principalities and onwards to
Italy. The following year, 1242, they planned to invade France and Spain with the same expectant fate.

All historians agree that with the fateful demise of
the European Knights Templar and German Teutonic Knights at Legnitz
and the massive army of Bela IV of Hungary, within three weeks of
each other, there was no merging European general with the
military skills to match the ruthless war machine of the
Golden Horde.

The citizens of Vienna Austria were panicked
as the Mongols were launching a dual winter campaign against Austria
and Germany as the first wave of assault into Western Europe. Suddenly
one morning the Golden Horde vanished like the mist of the
morning. For weeks life stood in suspense in the continent
of Europe but the Mongols never again touched foot on the central
European continent.

Here we first begin to see the finger of the Lord
of hostsworking his will upon nations of the earth. As
we shall see later with the invasion of Hülegü Khan in the Middle
East, every time Mongolians moved to conquer an area
where a large number of Jews lived, their military plans were
thwarted by death or division within the family of Genghis Khan.
As the forces of the Golden Horde were poised to invade the
central part of the continent of Europe, the pathway of their
entry was in the city of Vienna, Austria. Are we being too bold
to suggest that Europe was saved from complete destruction
by the Golden Horde because within the European cities
were large and thriving communities of Jewish people?

The new Khan only emerged after the widow of Ögedei; Töregene Khatun ruled as regent
for five years(1241-1246) until her eldest son by Ögedei; Güyük Khan was elected in
1246. Töregenewas described by chroniclers as ruthless but very effective in her charm to balance the competing powers of the multiple princes of the House of Khan. This family dynasty appears similar to what is today seen in the political intrigue found in the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia today.

As one of many wives in the Mongolian polygamous
community, Töregene Khatun used her charm and ruthlessness to unseat the line of succession through Ögedei Khan’s favorite son
Kochu by another
wife. Töregene was determined that her son would become the next in line to the royal throne. Yet, Kochu’s son, Siremun had been given the favored nod by Ögedei Khan
to be the next Great Khan.

Unable
to persuade her husband to change his election,Töregene changed the political future of the Mongols by political intrigue. First she encouraged the drunken states ofÖgedei but
when that took too long, the rumors in the land was that she
or her sisters poisoned the Great Khan and Töregene Khatunbecame
the Regent until a new Khan was elected.

The
eventual emergence of Güyük Khan (1246-1248) as the Great Khan
was solely at the political machinations of his mother, Töregene Khatun. This election
did not sit well with Batu Khan the leader of the Kipchak
Khanate in Russia.

Batu,
a son of
Genghis’ oldest son Jochi and Güyük both served on the
Russian front during the invasion into Europe between the years
1236-1241. During this time, the quarrels between them became intense
until Güyük was recalled to Mongolia.

During
these five years, 1241-1246 of hiatus when the Mongolian
forces were at a standstill until the next Great Khan could be
elected the following events occurred on the European continent.
The future King Alexander III of Scotland, the future King Philip III
of France and Eleanor of Castile, the future queen of Edward I of
England were born. The continent of Europe also saw the deaths
of; King Henry II of Poland, Vladimir II the Conqueror of Denmark and QueenIsabella of England the wife of Frederick II the famous
crusader King of the Holy Roman Empire who became the King
of Jerusalem.

Innocent
IV was elected pope in Rome the next year he sent two missions to the
Kipchak Khan suggesting that the Mongols convert to Christianity. As
noted, Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor was in power in Germany while James I reigned (1213-1276) as the King of Aragon (northern Spain) and Count of Barcelona while in neighboring Castile (Northern Spain). Ferdinand
III, the Saint King of Castile and Leon reigned from 1217-1252.

At
the time of the first Mongolian military council nomination in 1241, Batu
Khan was a leading candidate to become the Great Khan. In
the process of the next five years during the regency ofTöregene Khatun and with the eventual nomination of Güyük
Khan in 1246,Batu turned his attention to
consolidating his conquests in Asia and the regions surrounding
the Urals in central Russia. His brilliant general, Subutai, remained
in central Mongolia after the election at the kuriltai, the Mongolian military council. Hedied two years later in 1248.

Batu Khan and the Great KhanGüyük Khan by this time had
become bitter enemies. It was to the interest of Batu to take
part of his military forces and now to protect his eastern front in
case of a potential central Mongolian invasion into his provinces. This
battle of the wills between Güyük Khan and Batu Khan came to a head in 1248 when Batu
was ordered by Great KhanGüyük Khan to come to Mongolia. He assumed that he
would be arrested. With that in mind, Batu was returning with
a large army. Civil war withGüyük seemed inevitable.

On
the way to battleGüyük died at the age of forty two with
the effects of the combination of alcoholism and gout. His widow
Oghul Ghaimish became the regent but not for long as the Mongolian
rulership would soon be taken from the House ofÖgedei Khan, the third son of Genghis Khan.

When
the Great KhanGüyük died in 1248, Möngke Khan, the son of
Tolui
and Sorghaghtani Beki, became the Great Khan at the
kuriltai of the Mongolian Military Council in 1251. He was supported
by his brothers,
Kublai, Hülegü and Arigh Boke Khan.

The
warring factions between the House ofÖgedei, Genghis third son, and the House of Tolui, Genghis’
fourth sonwere boiling. Batu Khan, the senior male
of the family from the House of Jochi, Genghis first son, allied his
family with Möngke and the House of Tolui. He and his brother Berke
called the kuriltai and with a show of force elected Möngke
Khan in 1251.

Suppressing
an assassination attempt by the Ögedeiid faction, the reign of Möngke Khan
began to make its affect both on the European and
the Asia fronts. Möngkeearly in his training and career
participated in the 1236-1241 European campaign first in
southeast Russia with the destruction of Kiev. His last military
engagement was the assault and destruction of the great army of Beli
IV of Hungary where it was estimated that 800,000 Europeans died. Just
before the sudden halt to the invasion of central Europe, Möngke
returned to Mongolia.

Möngke was a serious
ruler but his interests were in the east in Chinathan in the western realms of Europe. He attempted to
circumvent the Song Dynasty of China. He later invaded
Indochina to open a base for the final attack on the Song’s from the west, the north and the south.

Thesecond front of expansionby Möngke was to send his brother Hülegü towards the south into
thelands
of the Persians and the Egyptians. The western front was at peacewith a show of
unity to Batu Khan, he allowed Batu to consolidate his own
semi-autonomous kingdom in Russia. Yet as the
war in China progressed, Möngke fell ill and died
of dysentery in 1259. The death of Möngke paved the way for the first United Mongolian Yuán
Emperor of China, Kublai Khan.

The site of this capital called Sarai-al-Margrus
or Saraj is in dispute by some scholarsbut the most
likely spot is at the Tsarev archeological site at the Akhtuba
channel 22 miles south of Volgograd. The capital was later moved
to a new site called Astrakhannear where the
delta of the Volga Riveropens into the Caspian Sea.

According to history, Tamerlane destroyed Sarai Merke in
1395. It was later destroyed by Mengli Ghiray of the
Crimean Khanate in 1502 and for the third time was destroyed by Ivan IV of Russiawhere he
conquered the Astrakhan Khanate in 1556. Soon after this around
1623 a merchant called Fedot Afanasyevich Kotov was journeying
to Persia when he made this observation in route:

Fedot Afanasyevich Kotov
(1623) – “Here
by the river Akhtuba stands the Golden Horde. The khan's court,
palaces, and courts, and mosques are all made of stone. But now all
these buildings are being dismantled and the stone is being taken to Astrakhan.”

As Batu Khan grew older, he still intended to carry
forth with his invasion plans to Europe after the death
of Güyük
Khan who died
the same year as Batu’s general, Subutai, in 1248. Before he could
carry out Subutai’s military strategy, he died in 1255 and the Kipchak Khanate was
passed to his son, Sartaq Khan. The Kipchak Khanate continued
to rule Russia or through the vassalage of Novgorod for the next
150 years (1400s).

Sartaq Khan, the son of Batu Khan,
the grandson of Jochi Khan, the great-grandson of Genghis
Khan, was now the successor to the throne of the Golden Horde,
the western front of the Greater Mongolian Empire in Russia. As
the son of Batu Khan and the Empress Dowager Khanum Boraqcin of Hwarizim
Sahi (Kipchak Khanate), he was befriended and became the sworn
brother in 1251 of an Alexander Nevsky who was adopted by
Batu Khan before his death.

Alexander
Nevsky was
the Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir who today is a legendary
medieval Russian saint for his epic military victories over the Swedes
in the Battle of Neva in 1240 when he was nineteen years old. Thushis name Nevsky, from the Battle of Neva.

A year
later he was again summoned to gather together an army to fight
against the invasion led by the Magister of the German
Teutonic Order, Hermann the brother of Albert of Buxhoeveden. Battling the armored
and mounted Teutonic Knights on the ice of Chudskove Lake in the Battle of the Ice on Lake Peipus on April 5, 1242, he stopped any
future invasion into Russia by Germany for several centuries.

This
battle became one of the most significant defeats by theRoman Catholic crusadersagainst Orthodox
Novgorod and other Russian areas in what was called the Northern Crusade. Little is known nor understood,
that the Christian Crusades were not limited to Jerusalem and the
Holy Land.

Parallel
with the
Second Crusade to the Holy Land initiated by Pope Eugenius III in
1145, a series of Crusades were launched all over Europe.
The Roman papacy was on the warpath to expand the influence
of the Roman Catholic Church even if it meant by military
conquest. Whereas the royal patrons of the papacy, Louis
VII of France and Conrad III of Germany along with the nobility
and Catholic militaryorders went to the Holy land, the
Mongolian Khanate in Russia came under attack by the German Teutonic
Knights, a military order of the Catholic Church.

Let
us consider what would have happenedif the wife ofÖgedei Khan had not intervened in
the political succession of the Great Khan and assisted in
the murder of the Great KhanÖgedei Khan.

Europewould have been
destroyed and the western Roman culture would have been forever
altered.

The
Second Crusade or any of the Christian Catholic Crusades would
never have made history by attacking the Islamic cities in
the Middle East and recovering the Holy Places of Christianity
for the Roman Catholic Pope.

The
Roman Catholic Church would have crumbled as pagan and
Islamic hordes would have destroyed the European Christian culture just
rising out of the Dark Ages.

The
European Union today would have governance more akin to
the ancient oriental societies of Babylon and Medo-Persia
than the Greco-Roman Hellenistic influence that it exerts today.

The
future global effects of Christianity would have been crushed.

Americawould never have been
re-discovered by the Jewish explorer, Christopher Columbus
under the Christian Catholic patrons of Ferdinand and Isabella
of Spain.

Islamic
Golden Renaissance may not have been destroyed by the Mongolian
hordes of Hülegü Khan.

What
Alexander Nevsky was most noted was his astute conciliatory
policy towards Batu and Saraq Khan in the invasion of the
Golden Horde. It was the political genius of Alexander Nevsky that
made Novgorod unique in Russian history for this city was not
destroyed nor the citizens slaughtered as every other Russian
city experienced.

What
is more interesting is the effect of Alexander Nevsky on the young Mongol prince,
Sartaq.The religion of the Mongolian
was a form of Shamanism yet Sartaq by
Armenian authors is reputed to have been
converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity. It was August 29,
1254 that Duke Sartaq Khan sent a priest as an envoy to Pope
Innocent III along with a letter in which he stated that he
was baptized as a Christian.

Upon
the death of Batu Khan in 1255, Sartaq became the Khan of the
Golden Horde, but shortly died in 1256. He was succeeded by Ulaqchi Khan for a few months until 1257
when the brother to Batu Khan, Berke Khan became the Khan
of the Russian Kipchak Khanate. There was one fact that lay hidden in the psychic of the new Khan of the Russian Kipchak Khanate. Berke Khan was a convert of Islam.
The course of Jewish and Islamic history would be re-written by this event.

It was Berke Khan, now the
leader of the Golden Horde (1257-1266) that changed the course of
historyfor the Mongolian Empire. After the death of his brother
Batu Khan, the lastof thefirst generation
family of Genghis Khanwas gone.The course of offenseinto the
Middle East and the Holy Land turned into adefense. It was now
that the powerful Mongol chieftain of the Russian Golden Kipchak
Khanate turned against his Mongol cousins and in alliance with the
Mameluks of Egypt, defended topreserve the Holy Land
from any further Mongolian advances. Why?

Whereas
Sartaq Khanwas the son of Batu Khan,
the grandson of Jochi Khan and became a Russian
Orthodox Christian, it was Berke, BatuKhan’s brotherwho turned his allegiance to
Allah and became a Muslim.

In
his early life, Berke Khan formed a family coalition with his
brothers: Orda, Sinkur and Siban along with other cousins under the command
of his brother Batu. With 150,000 soldiers, they marched into Siberia and conquered the Bulgars and the Kipchak Turkic. These conquered nomadic
tribes in southern Russia along the Black Sea. They became the military
foundation of the armies that devastated Eastern Europe and formed the Kipchak
Khanate comprising Russia, Ukrainia and Kazakhstan that later were called
the Golden Horde.

By 1259, it was the decision
of the Military Council of the Golden Hordeto support Berke
Khan’s deadly determination to invade Persia and destroy Hulagu Khan of the Il-Khanate. This action
by a Mongolian leader recently converted to Islam was because of the
deadly intentions of Hulagu Khan that led to the devastating
and horrific action in 1258 when Baghdad was sacked and conquered.

It was not only Baghdadwith the
murder of the Caliph Al-Musta’sim but also Syria, Jerusalem and even Meccathat Hülegü Khanwas seeking to
destroy. To prepare for this invasion against their own cousin, Poland was attacked by General Nogai Khan in the regions of Lublin, Sandomierz, Krakow and Byton to loot and gather funds for the coming invasion.

After the conversion of Berke Khan to Islam the majority of the
supreme council and military troops became Muslim thus seeding
the Muslinidentityin the
present independent states in eastern Russia. In a jihadagainst his own brethren, Berke’s blood vengeance bid its time until 1262, when Hulagu Khan returned from the
Mongolian kuriltai, the Mongolian Military Council to elect Kublai Khan
after the death of the fourth Great Khan, Möngke Khan.

There
awaiting Hülegüwas a civil war between the Il-Khanate
of Persia and the Kipchak Khanate of the
Golden Horde. With an alliance with Sultan Baibars of
the Egyptian Mamluks, Berke in a series of raids drew the
armies of the returning Hülegü Khan
to the north and there began the first Mongol civil war. This was the beginning
of the end for the Greater Mongolian Empire four hundred years later.

The
blood oath of Berke to destroy Hülegü was
recorded in history in a letter to the Supreme Möngke Khan,
who unknown to Berke had justdied. Berke protested
Hulagu’s attack on Baghdad as quoted by the Islamic historian
Rashid al Din:

Berke Khan - “He sacked all the
cities of the Muslims, and has brought about the death of the
Caliph. With the help of God I will call him to account for so much innocent blood.”(David Nicolle
in “The Mongol Warlords”, Brockhampton Press, 1998 and “The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War”
written by Reuven Amitai-Preiss, 1998)

In
the year 1263 the forces of Hülegü were attempting to invade the
territories north of the Caucasus Mountains when he met the
forces of Berke’s cousin Nogai at the Terek River. Forced into
retreat, the era of Hulagu was over, the containment of the
Il-Khanate the Mongolian occupation government in Persia was complete.

Hulagu
died in 1265. Historians to date are in general agreement that without the
actions of
the Russian Kipchak Khanate (Golden Horde), the remainder of theHoly Land, Jerusalem down
to the city of Meccawould have
shared the samedestructive fate as Baghdad.

During the previous 150 years, the Holy Land had
been riveted between the Christian Crusaders and the Islamic
inhabitants over the future destiny of who would control the land
that the God of Israel called His own. Surprising as it may
seem, the influence of the Jews on either of these choices
appeared to be minimal. Yet, the affect upon the Jewish
population was significant.

The Jewish population in the Middle East suddenly found
that they had two enemies: the Catholic Christian Crusaders that
wanted to drive out the infidels; Muslims and Jewish alike from
the Holy Land. These same Crusaders then allied themselves
with the Mongolian forces of Hülegü Khan that were coming
with the same intention;
to drive out the Muslim population and those Jews that
were living with the Islamic people.

What was significant was the affect of the Crusaders
upon the soon to be invasion of the Mongolian hordes into the Middle East. The Mongol presence would forever alter the geo-political
and social climate of these ancient lands. They would seal
forever the social-cultural identity of the lands of the former
Persian and Babylonian Empires with the Russian and Chinese people.

History predominately taken from the Free Internet Encyclopedia
Wikipedia

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